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Permutations

23 May 2025

A sorted permutation has n permutation each has size 1

A permutation with 1 version has n - 2 cycles of size 1 and 1 cycle of size 2

If you swap two number in the same cycle you will split that cycle into 2 cycles and if you merge 2 number in 2 different cycle you will merge two cycle into one big cycles.

If K is the number of cycles in a permutation of size N. Then the number of way to sort a permutation is N - K.


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